Ernest Poole was born in Chicago in 1880. He was a journalist who reported on Russia during the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and in 1914 he covered World War I from Berlin for The Saturday Evening Post.
His professional writing career began in 1903 with an article in McClure's magazine about street boys in New York City. His novels include The Harbor (1915) and His Family (1917), and His Family won the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918. He died in New York City in 1950.
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